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LLC East Asian

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  • Profile picture of Sarah Allen

    Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 4 days ago

    The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

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    Jack W. Chen started the topic Executive Forum Call for Nominations in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 6 days ago

    P14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Anti-Asian Racist Misogyny in Science Fiction Films.” The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience (Bloomsbury ABC-CLIO, 2022). Digital Database in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    The depiction of women of East Asian descent in science fiction films reveals how racial hierarchies are mapped onto, and used as justification for, mistreatment of women—and misogynistic prejudices inform racism. Contributing to the patterns that dehumanize Asian women are multiple sci-fi films that feature cyborgs and androids in Asian female b…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    Oceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time 

    The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies <https://www.sinophonestudies.org/s3conference>

    5/12—5/14/2023

    Penn State University

    The Sinophone world that is invigorated by “multisensory protests” and “ally-ship” (the focus of the 2021 conference) al…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Palgrave, 2022) in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 months ago

    Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, three of the most frequently adapted tragedies, have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for over two centuries as political theatre, comedic parody, Chinese opera, and avant-garde theatre. Gender roles in the plays take on new meanings when they are e…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television,” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago

    The global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]

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    Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 months ago

    An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

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    Jina Kim started the topic CFP Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference “Pacific-Rim Modernism” in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago

    CFP for the Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference

    “Pacific-Rim Modernism”

    Portland, Oregon | October 27-30, 2022

    https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa2022/cfp.html

    Call for Individual Paper Proposals for MSA Panel Streams

    • Pacific-Rim Modernism examines not only how western modernists and modernist cultural productions imag…

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    Jina Kim started the topic CFP Korean Literature Association Conference 2022 in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago

    Korean Literature Association Annual Meeting

    November 11-12, 2022, University of OregonEugene, OR, USA

    The Korean Literature Association cordially invites proposals for its annual meeting on the theme of “Resonance” to be held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. We invite individual papers and team projects that reflect on the way res…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin,” American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (October, 2021): 115-130. in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    How might we de-colonize hegemonic knowledge production about East Asia and its relationship with the West? This interview with Alexa Alice Joubin draws on new perspectives on cultural exchange in her book, Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021), which promotes treatment of Asian performing arts as original epistemologies rather…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown,” Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska (Cornell University Press, 2021), 322-349 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Analyzing trans narratives about the early moderns through the lenses of affective labor and social reparation, this chapter reclaims as trans the Shakespeare films that have been misinterpreted as homosexual. In doing so, this chapter builds a longer, more intersectional history of gendered embodiment. Reparative trans performances—works in w…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
    Conveners: Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
    Part 1: University of Southern California (Los Angeles), May 20-21, 2022
    Part 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2022
    Call for Papers
    Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Adapting Shakespeare: shattering stereotypes of Asian women onstage and onscreen.” Oxford University Press blog, July 5, 2021 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago

    Gender roles in Shakespeare’s plays take on new meanings when they are embodied by Asian actors. Learning more about Asian approaches to performance not only enriches our worldview but also makes Asian cultures less abstract and Asian people more relatable as fellow human beings. Reflecting the idea that strength and empowerment can take many f…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago

    Since the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]

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    Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago

    This essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited University of Chicago East Asia by the Book! Author Talk: Shakespeare and East Asia, Tuesday May 25, 2021 at 5 pm CDT / 6 pm EDT in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago

    Register at https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jyEzkIZYQZ6bKzjjr3faZg :::: The University of Chicago East Asia by the Book! Author Talks is proud to present a book launch of Alexa Alice Joubin’s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press). Chair: Haun Saussy (University of Chicago). Discussant: Michael Saenger (Southwestern…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Fulbright Snapshot: Snapshot: Shakespeare & East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, March 24, 2021 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford, 2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of Shakespeare. In this Snapshot, Alexa Alice Joubin discusses the book and the importance of wider research into Global Shakespeares.

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Chinese Literature Today 9.2 (2020): 89-90 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Western observers often attribute Chinese suppression of undesirable information to state crackdowns on dissidents, pervasive censorship apparatus, and even self-censorship. For contemporary Chinese citizens under a certain age, Tiananmen Square protests allegedly did not happen. The PRC leadership’s private lives are shrouded in secrecies, m…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Alexa Alice Joubin

    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Since the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]

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